Many organizations faces the challenge to get themselves ready for the implementation of the Protection of Personal Information Act. The implementation of POPI has brought many significant questions and uncertainties to the mind of the business management how to address such a huge and daunting task. If your organisation processes personal information of any kind, complying with the POPI Act is your challenge. It will be very difficult not to fall in this category since just merely paying employees and dealing with SARS is an indication of your organization dealing with personal identifiable information (PII).
The concept of privacy practices are new to organizations. PrivacyManager and it's Partners understand the risk and costs involved and has, after intense studying of the POPI and GDPR Acts, developed an implementation methodology and a unique toolset to assist organizations to, in a controlled manner, address and implement the requirements to ensure compliance to the Acts. Our services focus on multiple stages of the implementation cycle to ensure compliance readiness and is grouped in these focus areas:
Awareness and Training
Self-assessment
Risk Profiling
Treatment Roadmap
Portfolio Management
Inventory Mapping
Data Protection Incident Analysis
Document Control
Reviews and Inspections
Incident and Request Management
Timeline Notifications
Breach response management
Environmental Factors
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Data Management
Administration
Recommendations
Project Management
Consultative scoping
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A self-assessment toolkit has been created with small organisations in mind. It will be most helpful to small to medium sized organisations. Good information handling makes good business sense. You'll enhance your business's reputation, increase customer and employee confidence, and by making sure personal information is accurate, relevant and safe, save both time and money. Submit our compliance readiness questionnaire to assess your compliance with data protection law and find out what you need to do to make sure you are keeping people’s personal data secure. If you are unable to respond positively to the questions or once you have received your results and struggle to understand the feedback, a consultative scoping session could be a suitable course of action. Readiness Assessment |
An independent and expert view, analyzing your privacy compliance challenges
Validation of your organizations appetite for compliance from a resources and timeframe perspective
Assess your data privacy risks and identify privacy controls against POPI
Clarification of a suitable implementation approach
Lessons learnt from other similar implementation challenges
Opportunity to form implementation partnerships
Assess the current situation.
Provide a full day awareness training workshop specifically to give you a better understanding of data privacy and how POPI will impact your organization
Determining the overall organization compliance rating (GAP) assisted by a privacy expert in a facilitated work session with key organizational stakeholders
The results of the self-assessment are used to assist organizations in establishing the risk profile for privacy, complimented by identified international privacy risks
Compilation of a high-level roadmap for remedial privacy correction and implementation
A project flight-plan indicating timeline, estimated costs and resource requirements for implementation activities
PrivacyManager provides a comprehensive and rich framework of tools to help organization continuously manage and maintain their POPI compliance.
A comprehensive privacy data inventory.
A tool to help you identify and minimize the data protection risks of a new project as part of the POPI accountability.
A privacy document management control system holding all related privacy documents, correspondence, policies and operational procedures.
Continuous monitoring, validation, inspections and application of privacy changes within the organization, e.g. adherence to the rights of the data subject, regulatory changes and implementations, processor and 3rd party conduct and other organizational governance requirements.
Keeping track of all privacy activities ensuring control and that prompt response and proper communication protocols are adhered too.
Timeline scheduling of mandatory activities and controls to be conducted, linked to a specific role within the organization.
An incident response plan and event investigation process are imperative to privacy management in an organization. Security policies that defines a security incident with clear guidelines to handle data breaches must be applied and governed at the highest organizational level.
Privacy Consulting expertise on your door-step.
Making the organization aware and train key stakeholders on site by our privacy experts
Providing project resources as fill-in for the execution of implementation activities defined in the risk treatment roadmap and project portfolio.
Consult or privacy experts for both POPI and GDPR impact, insights, awareness, changes and challenges.
Consult support for PIA execution
Consultant support for data mapping and/or establishment of organizational data management practices.
Privacy compliance as a service.
A pay-as-you-go service offering utilizing our privacy management system supported by consultants and administrative functionaries.